Mario Reichenau

Mario Reichenau (5 May 1897-20 May 1945) was the Gauleiter of Kufstein in Austria under Nazi Germany.

Biography
Mario Reichenau was born on 5 May 1897 in Rottach-Egern in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the German Empire (Upper Bavaria, Germany). Reichenau enlisted in the Bavarian Army in 1913 and served in World War I, and became a Lieutenant in the Reichswehr by the end of the war in 1918. Reichenau became a lawyer in the Interwar Years and during World War II was appointed the Gauleiter of Kufstein in Tyrol, Austria. Reichenau deported many Jews and other undesirables to extermination camps during his leadership of the city, and on 2 May 1945 he was captured by the US Army at the end of the war. Reichenau was executed for war crimes on 20 May.